Here's The Burger-Flipping Robot That Could Put Fast-Food Workers Out Of A Job

A company called Momentum
Machines has built a robot that could radically change the
fast-food industry and have some line cooks looking for new jobs.

The company's robot can "slice toppings like tomatoes and pickles
immediately before it places the slice onto your burger, giving
you the freshest burger possible." The robot is "more consistent,
more sanitary, and can produce ~360 hamburgers per hour." That's
one burger every 10 seconds.

The next generation of the device will offer "custom meat grinds
for every single customer. Want a patty with 1/3 pork and 2/3
bison ground to order? No problem."

This directly raises a question that a lot of smart people have
contemplated:
Will robots steal our jobs? Opinion is divided of course.Here's what Momentum Machines
has to say on the topic:

The issue of machines and job displacement has been around
for centuries and economists generally accept that technology
like ours actually causes an increase in employment. The three
factors that contribute to this are 1. the company that makes the
robots must hire new employees, 2. the restaurant that uses our
robots can expand their frontiers of production which requires
hiring more people, and 3. the general public saves money on the
reduced cost of our burgers. This saved money can then be spent
on the rest of the economy.

If we are to undertake the lofty ambition of changing the nature
of work by way of robots, the fast-food industry seems like a
good place to start, considering its inherently repetitive tasks
and minimal skill requirements. Any roboticist worth his or her
salt jumps at tasks described as repetitive and easy — perfect
undertakings for a robot.

Here's a schematic of what the burger-bot looks like and how it
works. It occupies 24 square feet, so it's much smaller than most
assembly-line fast-food operations. It boasts "gourmet cooking
methods never before used in a fast food restaurant" and will
even deposit your completed burger into a bag. It's a
veritable Gutenberg printing press for hamburgers.